Zorba, an irrepressible, earthy hedonist, sweeps his young disciple along as he wines, dines, and loves his way through a life dedicated to fulfilling his copious appetites.
Miners
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Author:Kazantzakis, NikosSummary: -
Author:Doig, IvanSummary:Itinerant teacher and perennial charmer Morrie Morgan returns to the 1919 copper-mining center of Butte, Montana. There he meets retired Welsh twins, a comely landlady, and a Russian waif and encounters the seething ferment of an iron-...
- Author:Webber, Jennifer WynneSummary:
When the "Kirkland Lake gals of 1941" begin to share their story with a present-day audience, a siren sounds and they soon find themselves pulled right back into the fateful winter of 1941-42. There, they gather again at the...
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Author:McNeney, ArleySummary:Seduced by Slim's stories of the privations of a cross-country trek that ended in the violence of an historic riot and tales of Depression-era work camps, Edie MacDonald has followed him from mine to mine, where he finds work and she...
- Author:Bartlett, Jon, Ruebsaat, RikaSummary:
Soviet Princeton is the first published account of the 1932-33 clash between striking miners and mine owners in Princeton, BC, a small mining town a few hundred kilometres east of Vancouver. The authors scoured newspapers and court...
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Author:GEE, MauriceSummary:Hari's father has been captured and enslaved to work in Deep Salt. He vows to rescue him, a forbidding task: Deep Salt is the most feared of Company's mines. No one knows what's being mined there, no one ever returns to...
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Author:Peterson, JanSummary:When the Hudson's Bay Company decided to establish its new Pacific coast headquarters at Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island in 1843, the Island was a pristine paradise—or an isolated wilderness, depending on one's point of view—that had...
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Author:Howard, IreneSummary:Gold Dust on His Shirt is an evocative telling of the experience of a Scandinavian immigrant family of hard-rock miners at the turn of the century and up to World War II. Based on fascinating historical research, these are tales of...
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Author:Bonham, FrankSummary:A collection of 2 stories. "Sergeant Forson's Dirty-Shirt Army" is set in eastern Oregon, at a forgotten outpost left behind by the regular Army during the War between the States. Fort Haney is now home to a troop of fifty-seven men,...
